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Exclusive: Next for Nest: A Smoke Detector  —  Smart thermostat-maker Nest Labs has been developing a smoke detector that could go on sale as soon as later this year, we have learned from people close to the startup.  —  Why are we telling you about a potential new smoke detector?  Good question.
Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
Teardown Shows iPhone 5S Costs at Least $199 to Build, $173 for the 5C  —  New iPhones always gladden the hearts of the analysts at the research firm IHS, because it means it's time to tear the phones apart.  —  This year's iPhone teardown project was twice as much fun …
Venu Satuluri / Twitter:
Twitter recommends accounts and tweets in notifications based on @MagicRecs algorithms  —  Stay in the know  —  We've started rolling out a new notification that recommends interesting accounts and Tweets for you.  —  If you're like me, you occasionally feel like you're missing …
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple launches faster iMacs with 802.11ac WiFi, Pro graphics, improved Flash  —  Apple has launched an updated line of iMacs with faster processors, improved graphics, faster 802.11ac WiFi connectivity, and improved Flash storage.  The new iMacs are now available from Apple's online store.
Ryan Whitwam / Android Police:
Full Remote Device Lockdown Is Now Live In The Android Device Manager, Instantly Overrides Previous Lock Settings With Specified Password  —  In our recent APK/website teardown, we unearthed Android's upcoming remote device lock functionality through Google Play Services, and now it has quietly gone live in the Android Device Manager.
George Chen / South China Morning Post:
EXCLUSIVE: China to lift ban on Facebook - but only within Shanghai free-trade zone  —  Beijing has made the landmark decision to lift a ban on internet access within the Shanghai Free-trade Zone to foreign websites considered politically sensitive by the Chinese government, including Facebook …
Kristin Burnham / InformationWeek:
Yahoo Recycled Emails: Users Find Security Surprises  —  When Tom Jenkins, an IT security professional, learned in June that Yahoo planned to free up abandoned account IDs, he jumped on the opportunity to request a nickname he's had since high school.  He was thrilled when Yahoo emailed him in August to say the ID was available.
Bernd Leger / Localytics:
China Leads the Pack in Preference For iPhone 5s Over 5c  —  After some pretty extensive analysis of the iPhone 5s versus 5c within the first 48 hours after launch that we reported yesterday, we wanted to drill a bit further into the global distribution of the new iPhones looking at new data after 72 hours post launch.
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
In Its First Acquisition, StumbleUpon Buys Video Recommendation Startup 5by  —  Content discovery service StumbleUpon is announcing that it has acquired 5by, a video startup based in Montreal.  —  The financial terms of the deal aren't being disclosed, but the companies say the entire six-person 5by team …
Brad Reed / BGR:
Elop's contract reportedly gave him a big incentive to tank Nokia's stock, sell company  —  Wild-eyed believers in the Grand Elop Conspiracy might feel a little less crazy this morning.  Frequent BGR contributor Tero Kuittinen, writing over at Forbes, points us to some reports …
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
YouTube Announces A New Commenting System, Powered By Google+, With Threaded, Ranked And Private Conversations  —  YouTube today announced a new commenting system that will be powered by Google+.  The system, which is launching on channel discussion tabs this week before rolling out to all videos …
CNBC:
Twitter IPO home still in flux, no decision on NYSE: Sources  —  Not so fast, New York Stock Exchange.  —  Despite a report that Twitter had chosen to list its initial public offering on the NYSE, sources tell CNBC that Twitter is only leaning toward the Big Board, and that no final decision has yet been made.
More: Reuters and ValueWalk
Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:
Purported iOS 7 bug logs users out of popular apps like Mailbox and Snapchat  —  An apparent bug in Apple's iOS 7 software is repeatedly logging users out of several apps like Mailbox, Snapchat, and Loom.  The Verge has confirmed the issue directly with a few of the affected companies.
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
What Does Prem Watsa See in BlackBerry?  —  © University of Waterloo, Graphics, Photo/Imaging  —  With the announcement of its proposed $4.7 billion takeover bid, Fairfax Financial Holdings and its chairman, Prem Watsa, answered the long-running question, “Who would ever buy BlackBerry?”
Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM:
AT&T will build an LTE-Broadcast network tailor-made for video  —  AT&T hopes to breath new life into some old airwaves by building a broadcast network, ideal for pushing out live video to many multiple devices with out jamming up its pipes with traffic.  The technology is called LTE-Broadcast …
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Nvidia seeks peace with Linux, pledges help on open source driver (Updated)  —  Torvalds isn't yet ready to apologize for giving Nvidia the finger.  —  Editor's note: See the update at the end of this article for Linus Torvalds' response to Nvidia.  —  Few companies have been the target …
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Humans wrote tweets for popular Twitter spambot @Horse_ebooks for two years as conceptual art  —  @Horse_ebooks is a human performance  —  @Horse_ebooks, the Twitter account that was until now largely thought to be a spambot, is in fact controlled by real people.
Loek Essers / PC World:
Dropbox pushes to publish spy data request details  —  Cloud storage locker Dropbox has joined Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, LinkedIn and Facebook in their quest for permission to publish the number of data requests they have received from the U.S. government, and the number of users affected by those requests.
Quora:
Tech luminaries who made it big after 35 convene on Quora to refute “over the hill” claim  —  What do people in Silicon Valley plan to do once they hit 35 and are officially over the hill?  —  Since life in Silicon Valley ends at 35 unless you hit it big or move up in management …

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Filing: Paramount and state AGs agree to freeze the WBD merger until an antitrust trial occurs or until June 2027; a preliminary injunction hearing is canceled

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